The Danger of My Testimony...

[Barb]

There is an article in the January 2007 of the PH that really made an impression on me. It is written by Bro. Scott Graham, and I will only be able to post portions. He began...

"Sometimes we glamorize the wrong things. I thank God that the grace of Jesus Christ reaches deep enough to bring a man out of any pit, and I rejoice that no life of defilement is too filthy for Him to cleanse."

Just one comment…thank God that this is true or many of us, including this poster, would not be here. God has rescued many of us from destruction and hellfire, and the fact that some may have returned to the pit of sin and deception does not negate what God has done or can do again.

"But I also rejoice for the grace of God which saved me from many things out of which He did not have to save me. That is no less a miracle. In fact, in some respects it may be even a greater demonstration of grace than the former.

"There is inherent in my testimony a danger--I do not know what it feels like to be lost...I went to bed each night having said my prayers...I had a Bible before I could walk. I do not know what it is like to be lost..."

Bro. Graham speaks about the waters of Bethesda...

"It was a place of miraculous demonstration…The danger is in getting caught up in what God has done for us that we miss the reason for the moving water. Stop a minute in your admiration of the glory of God's moving to see it all again. Pause and look at the fields. See what is all around us--a multitude of hurting, broken people...

Into Bethesda's environment Jesus steps and asks a man sick for thirty-eight years the most startling of questions: ‘Wilt thou be made whole?’...If the angels visit was only annual, there were at least thirty-eight individuals who knew it worked. Where were they?...

Surely they came...Tell me they did not just come to conferences and talk about their healing, and talk about the water, and talk about the feeling when they first stepped in.

Tell me they didn’t make their missionaries deputize for two years just to get back to the water's edge. Tell me there were not still fifty-two countries and dependencies, with more than forty of them open to North Americans, waiting for someone to answer the call to come…Tell me they did not leave the broken struggling to get to the water…”

continued…